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The Hartmann Report

HAVE AMERICANS RUN OUT OF EMPATHY DUE TO TOO MANY DISASTERS?

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

Thom Hartmann, Congress, News, The Hartmann Report, Debate, Democracy, Economics, Climate Change, America

4.38 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Have Americans Run Out of Empathy Due to Too Many Disasters? Could the “Monarchs” on the Supreme Court Tank Democracy? Get ready for the Supreme Court & a handful of GOPers to put Trump, DeSantis, Scott, Cotton or Hawley into the White House regardless of the 2024 election outcome - unless they are stopped now.

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This is the Tom Hartman program.

0:48.1

Brand new day, a brand new show, have Americans run out of empathy because of too many disasters.

0:53.7

I want to dig into this a little bit, I think it's an absolutely fascinating topic.

0:58.8

Also in this our my rant over at HarbinReport.com today is about how Congress can put the supreme court

1:06.3

in a box. Yes, they can do it. They just never have, and maybe they will, we'll see.

1:13.9

And so that's what we have coming up on the program today, plus your calls.

1:18.2

But all these simultaneous disasters, this is the Jacob Stern wrote a piece in the Atlantic.

1:24.4

And I think it's a good one and a good point. I noticed the weekend before last,

1:32.1

it just something I don't even remember what it was.

1:37.1

And I snapped at Louise and she was like, wait a minute, are you feeling grumpy and I'm like,

1:42.8

whoa, yeah, I am. And it's like, and we both were. I mean, it's like, how did this happen?

1:48.2

You know, what do we do to fix it? And we ended up like hugging each other and kind of talking

1:54.2

about it. But what I'm figuring out is that I'm suffering. And I think probably everyone is

2:03.4

suffering from some sort of variation on something like post-traumatic stress disorder or present

2:12.4

traumatic stress disorder. I mean, you know, for a year, I couldn't see my grandchildren or my

2:19.0

children. I couldn't travel. I've traveled my whole entire life. I couldn't be with my best friend,

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